American Poetry Final Suggestion Session (2019-20)

American Poetry Final Suggestion Session (2019-20)

Part B

Emily Dickinson

1. Describe the mourners and how the poet feels they lift the coffin.  [NU. 2015, 2019, 2021] ★★★
2. How long will the poet continue drinking alcohol or nectar from nature?  [NU. 2016, 2018] ★★★
3. How can “Wild Nights! Wild Nights” be considered a mystic poem? Or, Show the religious elements in this poem.  [NU. 2018, 2020] ★★★
4. How does Dickinson treat immortality in her poems?  [NU. 2020]
5. How does Dickinson express her love in “Wild Nights! Wild Nights?”  [NU. 2015]

Walt Whitman

6. Write a note on Whitman’s use of symbols.  [NU. 2017, 2020] ★★★
7. How does Whitman describe the lilac-blush?  [NU. 2017, 2019]
8. What picture of the American Civil War do you get in the poem “When Lilacs Last in The Dooryard Bloom’d?”  [NU. 2017] ★★★
9. What does the poet mean by ‘Our fearful trip is done’?  [NU. 2015, 2019, 2021] ★★★
10. How does the poet express his grief over the death of the captain?  [NU. 2018]

Robert Frost

11. Analyze the theme of the poem “Road Not Taken.” [NU. 2020] ★★★
12. Why does Frost say, ‘Earth is the right place for love’?
13. Why was Warren unwilling to hire Silas anymore?  [NU. 2016, 2020] ★★★
14. What dramatic qualities do you find in the poem “The Death of The Hired Man?”  [NU. 2017]
15. What does the speaker of “After Apple Picking” foretell about his dreams?  [NU. 2015, 2019]
16. Find out the similarities that exist between the poet himself and the tree at his window.  [NU. 2016, 2019]
17. What message does Frost convey through his poem “Mending Wall?” [NU. 2018, 2021] ★★★
18. What is Frost’s attitude toward nature in “Tree at My Window?”  [NU. 2017, 2021] ★★★

Langston Hughes

19. Do you think Langston Hughes is an optimistic poet?  [NU. 2020]
20. What did Langston Hughes learn from his visit to the rivers?  [NU. 2015, 2018] ★★★
21. Write a short note on the ‘Harlem Renaissance’.  [NU. 2017, 2021] ★★★
22. Show the racial inequality in the poem “I, Too, Sing America.”  [NU. 2020]
23. “I am the darker brother,” Who said this, and in which context?  [NU. 2017] 

Part-C

Emily Dickinson

1. Discuss the major themes in Emily Dickinson’s poetry you have read. [NU. 2015, 2018] ★★★
2. Critically analyse the poem “I felt a Funeral in My Brain” by Emily Dickinson. [NU. 2019]
3. Discuss Dickinson as a poet of nature. [NU. 2017, 2021] ★★★

Walt Whitman

4. Examine “O Captain! My Captain” as an elegy. [NU. 2016, 2019] ★★★
5. Write a note on Whitman as a mystic poet with special reference to his poem “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d.” [NU. 2014, 2018]
6. Consider Whitman as a modern poet. [NU. 2016, 2019, 2021] ★★★

Robert Frost

7. Depict the theme of alienation in the poems of Robert Frost. [NU. 2006, 2011, 2013]
8. Evaluate Frost as a poet of the common man. [NU. 2015, 2021]
9. Write a critical appreciation of the poem “The Death of The Hired Man” [NU. 2015, 2016, 2019] ★★★
10. Robert Frost is a poet of nature. [NU. 2018, 2020] ★★★

Langston Hughes

11. Discuss the elements of anti-racialism in the poems of Langston Hughes. Or, What is racism or racialism? Discuss Langston Hughes as an anti-racialist. [NU. 2016, 2018] ★★★
12. Describe the liberal attitude of Langston Hughes toward the Americans. [NU. 2015, 2019, 2021] ★★★
13. Discuss the socio-political conditions of America as the background to Langston Hughes’ writing poetry. [NU. 2013]
14. what is symbolism? What symbolic elements do you find in the poem of Langston Hughes? [NU. 2017, 2019, 2021] ★★★